Can't wait to see if we can finally get Merriweather in there for more than a dozen plays.

You were watching the Eagles game? I mean maybe he played well back there in coverage but continued from his preseason woes to miss tackles and just not play aggressive enough. I think he will be better than Doughty in due time but not now...curious to why you think he is better at this point with Doughty's experience and knowledge of the defense.

Rambo made ten tackles in the Eagle game. How many do you claim he missed? Funny, I don't remember more than a couple. What I remember are the tons of tackles missed by our front seven.

skinsfan#33 wrote:Yrs, this post does add something to this discussion. Of you remember correctly you will remember that Sean want sgood good tracker tracker his his first couple of years and he would get beat in coverage at times too. It wasn't until his last couple of seasons that ST became the player most of us remember.Many of the falls people are accusing Rambo of having we're some of the same traits Taylor had his first couple of seasons. Now I'm nit saying Rambo well be the next ST or even half the player Sean was, but what I am saying is Sean was ruff abound the edges his first couple of seasons and became a player that would have been a Hof player had he not tragically been killed.

I understand every player goes through a learning curve. The NFL must be incredibly challenging even for the hardest-working, most gifted athletes there are...HOWEVER, in my humble, inexpert opinion, the eye test tells me that even should he eventually max out his ability, Baccari Rambo would probably still be a Chrysler to ST's Lexus.

But that's nothing to be ashamed of; as I said in my earlier post, that description applies to 75-80% of all the other safeties as well. I am still struck by how much the players have evolved from a mere 3 decades ago. One of my favorite all-time 'Skins is Alvin Walton, an undersized, not particularly fast but deadly hitter who for me is one of the core Gibbs 1.0 blue-collar, never-say-die players. Even in his day AW was smallish, but the biggest FS of that era was Steve Atwater at 225 lbs. He was thought of almost as an OLB in the secondary, he was so big. ST was, what - 235 at least, and faster than Atwater.

And we all know how well he used that mass/speed combo. Ronnie Lott to the 3rd power...but I digress. We'll never know, but it's very probable ST would have made his full career into a first-ballot HOF ticket - and IIRC there isn't another Redskins S who has even come close to that level of sustained excellence. There may never be another, for that matter. Once in a generation talent is, by it's very definition...you know the rest. Rambo's not it. But maybe he comes close to a Brad Edwards, or a Mark Murphy?

Can't wait to see if we can finally get Merriweather in there for more than a dozen plays.

You were watching the Eagles game? I mean maybe he played well back there in coverage but continued from his preseason woes to miss tackles and just not play aggressive enough. I think he will be better than Doughty in due time but not now...curious to why you think he is better at this point with Doughty's experience and knowledge of the defense.

Rambo made ten tackles in the Eagle game. How many do you claim he missed? Funny, I don't remember more than a couple. What I remember are the tons of tackles missed by our front seven.

There was one play in particular that made Rambo look like a high-schooler out there. He came up to face McCoy at the LOS and started tap dancing, and McCoy just ran right around him. It was really ugly.

Can't wait to see if we can finally get Merriweather in there for more than a dozen plays.

You were watching the Eagles game? I mean maybe he played well back there in coverage but continued from his preseason woes to miss tackles and just not play aggressive enough. I think he will be better than Doughty in due time but not now...curious to why you think he is better at this point with Doughty's experience and knowledge of the defense.

Rambo made ten tackles in the Eagle game. How many do you claim he missed? Funny, I don't remember more than a couple. What I remember are the tons of tackles missed by our front seven.

There was one play in particular that made Rambo look like a high-schooler out there. He came up to face McCoy at the LOS and started tap dancing, and McCoy just ran right around him. It was really ugly.

The same thing seemed to be happening time after time to most of the front seven. Why pick on Rambo, who made ten tackles and played well in coverage. In fact, this pointing fingers at Rambo is starting to make me angry. Someone has even compared him unfavorably with Sean Taylor, which is way beyond absurd and deep into stupid. I have no connection with Rambo at all and am no fan of his, but I can't stand a guy getting a bad rap.
If you harp on a bad play or two and don't mention a slew of good ones, you are giving a guy a bed rap and your opinion is worthless.

Can't wait to see if we can finally get Merriweather in there for more than a dozen plays.

You were watching the Eagles game? I mean maybe he played well back there in coverage but continued from his preseason woes to miss tackles and just not play aggressive enough. I think he will be better than Doughty in due time but not now...curious to why you think he is better at this point with Doughty's experience and knowledge of the defense.

Rambo made ten tackles in the Eagle game. How many do you claim he missed? Funny, I don't remember more than a couple. What I remember are the tons of tackles missed by our front seven.

There was one play in particular that made Rambo look like a high-schooler out there. He came up to face McCoy at the LOS and started tap dancing, and McCoy just ran right around him. It was really ugly.

The same thing seemed to be happening time after time to most of the front seven. Why pick on Rambo, who made ten tackles and played well in coverage. In fact, this pointing fingers at Rambo is starting to make me angry. Someone has even compared him unfavorably with Sean Taylor, which is way beyond absurd and deep into stupid. I have no connection with Rambo at all and am no fan of his, but I can't stand a guy getting a bad rap.If you harp on a bad play or two and don't mention a slew of good ones, you are giving a guy a bed rap and your opinion is worthless.

No, the same thing did not happen to the front seven. Yes, there were plenty of arm tackles attempted by the front seven, but that's not even near the same thing. And I'm not down on Rambo at all. In fact, I started him in my fantasy league, and he had a great game, statistically. I was merely commenting on that one play that was really ugly. If I had been picking on him, I would have commented on the TD he gave up when he tried to tackle by throwing his shoulder in there, or when he was nowhere to be seen on the Smeagols first score.

I'm curious as to how many more drafts and/or trades/FA/waiver pickups it's going to take for the Skins to finally field a secondary that doesn't routinely get torched like So Cal forests every summer and fall. It appears they've failed to fix this gaping hole in their D every way a team can. Maybe they should draw names out of a hat, or put 'em on a dart board, or....??

Because, this B******T is getting hard to watch. How's that for beyond absurd? Not that I care about those who would remonstrate with and ultimately scold me for voicing (what they see as) inanities. Even a tiny little bit.

EDIT: And JUST as I'm about to jump off the bridge, I read a few of Grampi's pearls and recall something I said VERY RECENTLY, to wit:

"for the first time in yadda yadda yadda...I feel the Skins can WIN blah blah blah....and this is THE year gush gush gush..."

And it hits me: 1)Thank you Jesus that I'm not THAT guy, who has to be miserable to think he's happy, and 2)next time I'm gonna get all happy and make a RIDONKULOUS claim before even one game has been played....shut up. Wait. Shut up.

Both Rambo and Doughty SUCK! They both should be cut. Redskins should of drafted DJ Swearinger when they had the chance. Rambo is and will not ever be an NFL Safety and the Skins are stupid to have cut Gomes and kept Doughty. Doughty should have been cut last season.

rcjur wrote:Both Rambo and Doughty SUCK! They both should be cut. Redskins should of drafted DJ Swearinger when they had the chance. Rambo is and will not ever be an NFL Safety and the Skins are stupid to have cut Gomes and kept Doughty. Doughty should have been cut last season.

They are not bad players. I expect to see improvement this upcoming week against the Lions. We have to remember Aaron Rodgers is one of the best if not the best QBs in the league.